'Women Painting Women' - a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth - shows viewers what happens when women are both the subject and the artist. The results are something authentic and raw.
and others, show women as differently beautiful: pregnant, overweight, sometimes despondent. As we are, wrapped in our truths., 1993. Oil on canvas, 54 x 72 inches. From the Collection of Sharad and Mahinder Tak © Arpita Singh
Arpita Singh's mother has seen and lived through so much conflict: the bloody partition of India and Pakistan, with its religious divides, political disputes, loss and deaths. At the top of the canvas, like a frame, Arpita has written the words,"Between what I say and what I keep silent." The mother clutches her hands. Her sari is white — in India, the color of mourning. Near her, a row of dead bodies. Surrounded by chaos, the mother is ...
Like so many of the 46 female artists in this exhibition, Luchita Hurtado had no money to hire models. But she had the wealth of her talent, and the will to make art. Again, like so many of these artists, Hurtado was driven to make art. She had responsibilities: a husband and children. At night, after dinner, when they'd gone to bed, curator Andrea Karnes says,"she would go into the closet and paint." Driven,"even when there was no market for her work.
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